Example sentences of "[pers pn] go [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We expect them to go home now and say , ‘ Mamma gim me lamb ’ . ’
2 I go somewhere else and eat junk food and drink junk wine .
3 So if I go straight over and invite Simon to address us next , please .
4 Even so , if you consider the pressures contingent on me that night , you may not think I delude myself unduly if I go so far as to suggest that I did perhaps display , in the face of everything , at least in some modest degree a ‘ dignity ’ worthy of someone like Mr Marshall — or come to that , my father .
5 I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid .
6 I went upstairs uneasily and knocked on his door .
7 I started at one corner and I went right across and came off at the other corner , and I did n't go back .
8 So everybody was telling me about this so I went away over and had a look at it .
9 I went straight upstairs and stood in the middle of my bedroom .
10 The house was sold off and I ended up inheriting 12,000 dollars , so I went straight out and bought an AG 440 Ampex professional four track machine and took it up to my father 's coffee plant , and every night when he left I would drive up and work on Stevie 's and my songs .
11 I went straight out and broke a window , I was that impressed … ’
12 Oh it started in the end , I think it was the er starter motor , but I went home again and took Mandy 's car instead , because I thought I do n't want it to play up tonight , you know , in the car park so I 'll have to check it out tomorrow afternoon .
13 You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ .
14 Why do n't you go right ahead and get the details , and then we 'll be in touch again ? ’
15 If the police are here they make you go right round and sit and wait .
16 ‘ Dorothy , I think the best thing would be if you went home now and reported to me here , first thing tomorrow morning .
17 And er if you went quietly back after putting the feed out say before dark , put the feed down there and you went quietly back and watched them , you would n't believe how many would have been there .
18 Do n't waste another night , she said ; if there is somebody here you want then you go right up and tell him about it , you just tell him , because he may not be here tomorrow night .
19 She went half-way upstairs and called , ‘ Camille ! ’
20 She went straight in and said to them , " For shit 's sake , ca n't you help us take the things up the stairs ? "
21 She went inside again and busied herself , filling the cupboards from the bags .
22 But must we go so far as to say that the USSR will not resort to force unless she is certain to get away with it ?
23 At Buitoni we go even further and blend a full five eggs — quality controlled and fully pasteurised — into each kilo .
24 We go so far as to say that in choice of partner it is a wise unconscious that falls in love with and marries its own unrecognized problem and then in marriage recreates the problematic situation .
25 Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis .
26 I 've asked him to let me go straight out and breathe the cellar air , but he always makes me wait till I 've had breakfast .
27 He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered .
28 In the meantime , as she so sweetly says , through her tears , to those who have over many years tried to gently persuade her to go straight away and live the rest of her life in comfort .
29 Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 .
30 They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules .
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